[R] This site may harm your computer - Google warning about cran website

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sat Jan 31 16:21:39 CET 2009


I am having this same problem with a huge number of sites, not just
CRAN.

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Christos Argyropoulos
<argchris at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is extremely annoying (and it smells of rat).
> As of this time (1013 am ET), Google issues the following nasty warning: "This site may harm your computer"
> when I try to visit any of the CRAN package repository sites or CRAN task view.
>
> The funny thing is that Google's Safe Browsing Diagnostic page (it gives diagnostics about any page that
> it may contain Malware) does not seem to be working at the moment, so that the problems that it found
> with CRAN are not available for review.
>
> Anyone else has the same problems?
>
> Christos Argyropoulos
>
> University of Pittsburgh
>
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> !
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>




More information about the R-help mailing list